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Episode 228: Fired up
This week in SF history
— 21 September 1968: Landing of zond 5 (wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)
— Next week in 2003: generic no longer
Spaceflight news
— H-IIB launch pad fire (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) (HT Sam in the chat: twitter.com/mageshiman1025)
— NASA conducts ground test of the B330. (space.com)
— Tour of B330 (Mars Transporter Testing Unit) and Olympus B2100 (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— Tianhe passes final review, though delays are still likely (spacenews.com)
— NASA’s LRO to take images of the Vikram Lander (spaceflightnow.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— GOES-13 correction from Kevin Smith (skyriddles.wordpress.com) (spacenews.com)